apt Repository Update Problem

pwo · 10-11-2004, 12:18 PM

Hi,
I've been trying to get my Ubuntu system off the ground and operational, but I am hindered by Synaptic/apt's refusal to work. I have the repositories that I want enabled, and when I click "refresh" in Synaptic or run "apt-get update" from the command line, I get errors like these:

Error reading from server - read (104 Connection reset by peer)
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)

after each file downloads. Any ideas what is going on here?

Thanks,
Matt

Lleb_KCir · 10-11-2004, 02:41 PM

post your /etc/apt/sources.list and the site to the program you are wanting to install, then were you go the repository from.

pwo · 10-11-2004, 07:51 PM

This is my sources.list:

Code:

deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 4.10 _Warty Warthog_ - Unofficial i386 Binary-1 (20040915)]/ unstable main restricted 

deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian/ woody main    
deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian/ woody main 


## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch updated software from the network
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty main restricted    
# deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty main restricted 

## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch updated software from the network
## and be able to use more than 12000 unsupported packages from the universe archive.
# deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty main restricted universe  
# deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty main restricted universe 

# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty-security main restricted 
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty-security main restricted

And what I want to be able to do is to install the XFree-86-devel package that is mysteriously not on my Ubuntu CD and is preventing me from watching videos with Xine or MPlayer. These repository addresses came default, and they are confirmed on the Ubuntu site. I've looked through the directories over HTTP, and the "Package.gz" or whatever the file is called that I think apt wants is there, so I'm not sure what the problem is.

Thanks,
Matt

Lleb_KCir · 10-11-2004, 08:36 PM

i take it then you are running debian?

here is my apt-get source list...FYI i was unable to get mplayer to work with KDE, but kaffeine works awsome and i had zero problems getting it.

Code:

#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20040925)]/ unstable contrib main

#deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib
#deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ testing main

#########Official Debian US
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

############thunderbird repository from http://www.jwsdot.com/debian
deb http://people.debian.org/~asac/testing ./
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~asac/testing ./


##########Official mplayer and dvdrip

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat stable main
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat testing main

########Official Debian Non-US
#deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free

#################cadj2k@tpg.com.au sujested lines for apt-get

deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib
deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ testing main
#deb http://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main
deb http://debian.tu-bs.de/mplayer/ftp.n...bian-marillat/ stable main

#############Debian Nvidia kernel and source
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free

with that /etc/apt/sources.list i was able to get XFree86 up and running and even able to get the newest nvidia drivers installed and configured to run under KDE.

hope that helps. you might want to post the errors you are getting when you run apt-get update or your apt-get install mplayer or what ever you are after.

pwo · 10-11-2004, 09:15 PM

I am running Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntulinux.org/), which is loosely based on Debian, as I take it.

I'll fiddle with my source list with some of your suggestions and get back to you with more reflections on the state of things.

Thanks again,
Matt

Lleb_KCir · 10-12-2004, 12:01 AM

best of luck. hope it works for you.